Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · C113-114

Getting Started with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI: A Hands-On Workshop

New to Fabric or Power BI? This workshop is the perfect place to start, giving you an end-to-end intro to Fabric and Power BI and equipping you with the skills and confidence to dive deeper into the world of modern analytics.

We’ll start with Fabric in the morning, building out an end-to-end solution, then on Power BI in the afternoon.

Through guided exercises led by experts, you'll gain knowledge you can take back to your own projects, and you'll be set up for a successful conference!

*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · C211-C213

Mastering Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric: From Security to Operationalization

Fabric Data Factory enables organizations unify their data estate with OneLake. Security is paramount. You will learn how to secure your data ingestion, transformation using workspace identity auth and Azure Key Vault integration, implement network isolation (Private Link and VNet gateway) for accessing data behind firewall. Operationalization is another important aspect. You will learn to operationalize pipeline, dataflow gen2 with variable library, build metadata driven pipelines and more.

*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · C302

Mastering SQL Server Performance & Optimization Strategies

Everyone wants their database to go faster, whether it's shaving hours off your ETL process, taking minutes off the runtime for reports, or trimming milliseconds off a critical OLTP query. Every database professional must know where to look and how to tune, whether you have one SQL environment or thousands.

In this full-day session, you'll learn how to take your performance tuning skills to the next level.